Roger Bell was born in Montreal, where he returned in 1997 after spending twenty-five years in other parts of Canada, the United States, Europe and Brazil. This is Roger's fourth book. His first, Letters To My Daughters, describes his two years hitchhiking around the world at twenty-two years of age; his second, Bates - A Pattern Breaker and his Friends, is a biography; his third, Sketches and Random Stories, is a memoir and a reprinted collection of his charcoal and pastel portraits. Roger currently lives in Montreal and Bonita Springs Florida with his wife, Ellen.